What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani's socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to ...

Though America, América features as large a cast of characters as one would expect from a work of history that aspires to synthesize the development of an entire hemisphere over the course of half a ...

Patrick Iber Spring 2025 Buses of migrants from the Texas border arrive in New York City on September 25, 2022. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) This conversation took place on February ...

Nick Serpe April 29, 2025 Charles Murray speaking at FreedomFest in Las Vegas in 2013. (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons) In his last three books, Quinn Slobodian has enriched our understanding of the ...

Pablo Stefanoni March 4, 2025 Argentinian President Javier Milei wields a chainsaw as he arrives on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 20, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty ...

The contrast between the Reagan and Trump administrations are stark. Trump is pursuing his attack on federal workers’ rights through a “department” Congress neither created nor approved, Elon Musk’s ...

Patrick Iber is co-editor of Dissent. Tressie McMillan Cottom is a research professor at UNC-Chapel Hill’s iSchool, a MacArthur Fellow, and a New York Times contributing opinion writer. She is a ...

Lorenzo McClellan September 10, 2024 James C. Scott When James C. Scott died earlier this summer at the age of eighty-seven, tributes to the scholar poured in from a bewildering variety of sources.

Joshua Leifer October 12, 2023 Cars and a stroller left behind at the scene of a rocket attack from Gaza near the entrance of the Israeli kibbutz of Kfar Aza, October 10, 2023. (THOMAS COEX/AFP via ...

It’s no secret that many younger Americans are disillusioned with the neoliberal order. Even young Republicans exhibit a loss of faith, with positive views of capitalism hovering around 60 percent.

History Won’t Do Our Work for Us From Gramsci’s political and strategic thinking comes a set of ideas that arguably have only grown more salient with time. Among them: That revolutionary change will ...

Barbie, who will turn sixty-five next year, is older than Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique and Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch. She predates bra burning and feminist consciousness raising. And ...